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A few weeks ago, I and many of my esteemed Whisky Magazine colleagues were on the staff at Whisky Live London, the annual tasting show organised by our parent company. Over two days, hundreds of whisky fans walked through the doors of the Honourable

Editor-at-large – Christopher Coates christopherc@paragraph.co.uk Editor – Bethany Whymark bethanyw@paragraph.co.uk Deputy editor – Phoebe Calver phoebec@paragraph.co.uk Content executive – Bradley Weir bradleyw@paragraph.co.uk Canada – Blair Phillip

Every week, I receive messages asking for advice about buying ‘rare’ whisky. I respond with a polite message to the tune of, “I don’t give investment advice; read these articles about cask scams and fakes; don’t spend money you can’t afford to lose;

Every April during Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt, I think about how the Seder meal, its symbolic foods and the prayers that extol them are the very same foods and prayers that celebrants par

By the early 19th century, the introduction of increasingly restrictive manufacturing regulations, access to resources, and the engineering of sequential compartments for distillation reshaped the distilling industry, as steam boilers permitted conti

It sounds obvious but it bears repeating. There are so many projects out there that you need to be clear on what your goal is. Ask yourself: are you trying to make money or just invest in something you believe in? Do you know who the founders are and

According to Diageo, “This tour will take you on a deep dive into The Singleton’s signature ‘Slow Craft’ process, highlighting why and how our methods result in such a superior malt.” This tour option gives the opportunity to sample five Singleton wh

The ‘Singleton’ name was first used in the 1980s, in relation to Auchroisk Distillery. It is now applied to Diageo’s Glen Ord for markets in the Far East, Glendullan for the USA and Canada, and Dufftown for Europe. Both Glendullan and Dufftown Distil

After studying English literature at university, Bethany worked as a journalist for regional newspaper groups before moving to the spirits industry. She was appointed as editor of Whisky Magazine in 2022, having previously edited its sister titles Gi

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